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TIL in four boroughs of New York City, excluding Staten Island, there has been a 25 to 35 percent reduction in alcohol-related car accidents since Uber came to town in 2011.

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Y7ZoW TIL that in 1992, an Australian comedy show called "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos" was pulled from TV midway through the broadcast after Kerry Packer, the owner of Nine Network, phoned the studio operators and angrily shouted at them to "get that shit off the air!"
bP0E TIL that before becoming a best-selling true crime author, Ann Rule worked side-by-side and alone with psychopathic serial killer Ted Bundy during the night shift at a suicide prevention hotline. While still working together, she began writing about the unsolved murders in the area.
5YBBP TIL The United States spends more on their defense budget than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined.
k915 TIL. The first sales pitch for the Nerf ball was “Nerf: you can hurt babies or old people!”
rbjW TIL a British Columbia company backed by the Gates Foundation is sucking CO2 directly from the atmosphere and converting it to usable transportation fuel. The plant removes one ton of carbon dioxide a day, the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road annually.